Alan Garner Quotes

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Alan Garner

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• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Myself
  • Spiritual
  • Somewhat

• When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Relationship

• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Strength
  • Feet
  • Stand

• It's very special having a new little girl.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Girl
  • New
  • Special

• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Always
  • Brain

• I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Dream
  • Control
  • Scenes

• I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• I was really shy growing up. I had braces, headgear, and no boobs - still don't. So, the boys weren't interested in me. The only way I could get attention was by being a goof and a dork, which meant a lot of physical comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Way
  • Growing
  • Attention

• On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Want
  • You
  • Questions

• Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Work
  • God

• History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Time
  • History

• Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Eyes
  • Violence

• We should be wondering tonight, 'Is there a world?' But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World

• After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Real

• The centre of gravity of any cone is the point which divides its axis so that the portion adjacent to the vertex is triple of the portion adjacent to the base.

  

  Archimedes

• Value is created for the customer, and that allows our suppliers, agents and staff that work with Sany to obtain success.

  

  Liang Wengen
  • Work
  • Success
  • Value

• I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.

  

  Joseph Bologna

• I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Change

• Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Great

• I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Control
  • Charge
  • Ireland

• Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

  

  Alan Garner